Japanese destroyer Fumizuki (1926)

	Fumizuki in July 1926
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Fumizuki
Namesake	July
Builder	Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
Laid down	20 October 1924 as Destroyer No. 29
Launched	16 February 1926
Completed	3 July 1926
Renamed	As Fumizuki, 1 August 1928
Stricken	31 March 1944
Fate	Sunk by American aircraft, 18 February 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Mutsuki-class destroyer
Displacement	1,336 t (1,315 long tons) (normal); 1,800 t (1,772 long tons) (deep load);
Length	97.54 m (320 ft 0 in) (pp); 102.4 m (335 ft 11 in) (o/a);
Beam	9.16 m (30 ft 1 in)
Draft	2.96 m (9 ft 9 in)
Installed power	38,500 shp (28,700 kW); 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed	37.25 knots (68.99 km/h; 42.87 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	150
Armament	4 × 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns; 2 × triple 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes; 18 × depth charges; 16 × mines;
Service record
Part of:	Destroyer Division 30
Operations:	Battle of the Philippines; Battle of Java; Solomon Islands campaign; New Guinea campaign; Operation Hailstorm;

Fumizuki (文月, ”July”) was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the Philippines Campaign in December 1941 and the Dutch East Indies Campaign in early 1942. In March, she was assigned to convoy escort duties in and around Malaya and the Dutch East Indies until she was transferred to Rabaul in early 1943 to ferry troops around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

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